Month: April 2016
An Indonesian Reagan
Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Government of Indonesia For a country that is widely reputed to have a lot of crony capitalism, Indonesia is pretty lucky to … Read More
Crony Capitalism
World Map of Transparency International’s perception of corruption index for 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Turnless If there is one area of agreement between believers in capitalist free-markets and American Leftists, it is that … Read More
The Anti-Freedom Bias of Progressives
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
The Fecklessness of the U.S. Federal Reserve
From Top Left Clockwise: Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman; Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan; Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank Wikimedia Commons/ US Federal Reserve, World Economic Forum, Asian … Read More
Do the Rich Pay Their Fair-Share of Taxes?
Target the Rich! (c) Can Stock Photo The far-left in the United States — including President Barack Obama and the two Democratic Party candidates, Bernie … Read More
Where Leftists Take Over, People Vote With Their Feet
Vietnamese boat people, 1984, rescued by the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/PH2 Phil Eggman, U.S. Navy The photo above shows an extreme example of … Read More
The Economic Nature of Fascism
The Gods of Fascism: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Photo Credits: Left: Wikimedia Commons/time.com Right: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archives Whenever fascism is discussed, more often than not the characteristic emphasized … Read More
Economic Plans of Trump, Sanders, and Clinton Are Fantasies
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders: A rogues gallery of economic ignorance Image Credits: Top Left to Right: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Vadon, Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Bottom: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore … Read More
Stock Investors’ BIGGEST Enemy: Central Banks
The Shiller CAPE: The most trustworthy index on stock valuations Image Credit: gurufocus.com The question for the day is whether or not we should invest in the stock market. This … Read More
The Fed’s Labor Market Conditions Index
U.S. measures of unemployment Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Autopilot Wow!! The Federal Reserve so distrusted the Labor Department’s unemployment statistics that it created its own?! That is … Read More
U.S. Stock Markets and the Economy, April 2016
Candle charts of Dow 30 index on top, S&P 500 on bottom. Blue overlay curves are 50 day moving averages, Red curves are 100 day moving averages. Images courtesy of … Read More